The Finishing School
  • Published:
    Jan-2004 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2005 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    181
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From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland's creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.
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    •  
    • Nov-2005
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400077397
    • ISBN13: 9781400077397
    •  
    • May-2005
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 014100598X
    • ISBN13: 9780141005980
    •  
    • Apr-2016
    • Canongate Books Ltd
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1782117571
    • ISBN13: 9781782117575
    • First Edition
    • Jan-2004
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670911739
    • ISBN13: 9780670911738
    •  
    • Oct-2004
    • Doubleday
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0385512821
    • ISBN13: 9780385512824
    •  
    • Sep-2018
    • Birlinn General
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1846974461
    • ISBN13: 9781846974465
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Three Rivers Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030742202X
    • ISBN13: 9780307422026
    •  
    • Dec-2007
    • Canongate Canons
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 178211758X
    • ISBN13: 9781782117582
    •  
    • Dec-2005
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0786135190
    • ISBN13: 9780786135196
    •  
    • Dec-2005
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0786178329
    • ISBN13: 9780786178322
    •  
    • Dec-2005
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 0786180234
    • ISBN13: 9780786180233
    •  
    • Mar-2006
    • Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2005
    • Wheeler
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 158724862X
    • ISBN13: 9781587248627
    • Large Print



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